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CAE Reading and Use of English Part 1

For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (А, В, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Female pilot Mary Heath was the 0 original Queen of the Skies, one of the best-known women in the world during the 1 goldensweetbrightshiny age of aviation. She was the first woman in Britain to gain a commercial pilot’s licence, the first to 2 putholdtakemake a parachute jump and the first British women’s javelin champion. She scandalised 1920s’ British society by marrying three times (at the 3 crestheightfullnesstop, of her fame she wed politician Sir James Heath – her second husband, 45 years her senior).

In 1928, aged 31, she became the first pilot to fly an open-cockpit plane, solo, from South Africa to Egypt, 4 coveringstretchingcrossingranging 9,000 miles in three months. It was a triumph. Lady Heath was 5 exclaimeddeclaredhailedquoted as the nation’s sweetheart and called ‘Lady Icarus’ by the press. However, her life was 6 cutleftstoppedbrought tragically short. Only a year later, she 7 undertooksufferedreceivedunderwent a horrific accident at the National Air Show in Ohio in the USA, when her plane crashed through the roof of a building. Her health was never the 8 likeequalbettersame again, and she died in May 1939.

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The old, print-friendly test

CAE Reading and Use of English Part 1

For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (А, В, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Our obsession with recording every detail of our happiest moments could be 0 damaging our ability to remember them, according to new research.

Dr Linda Henkel, from Fairfield University, Connecticut, described this as the ‘photo-taking impairment effect’. She said, ‘People often whip out their cameras almost mindlessly to 1 seizegraspcapturesnatch a moment, to the point that they are missing what is happening 2 quiterightmerelybarely in front of them.’ When people rely on technology to remember for them — 3 countingsettlingassumingswearing, on the camera to record the event and thus not needing to 4 engageapplyattenddedicate to it fully themselves — it can have a negative 5 resultaspectextentimpact on how well they remember their experiences.

In Dr Henkel’s experiment, a group of university students were 6 steeredrunledconveyed on a tour of a museum and asked to either photograph or try to remember objects on display. The next day each student’s memory was tested. The results showed that people were less 7 accuratefaithfulexactfactual in recognising the objects they had photographed 8 measuredcomparedmatchedconfronted with those they had only looked at.

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